Improvement in trace-carriers



waited mes @anni @Mira ROBERT roar-ER, or OTTUMWA, IOWA.

Leners Patent No, 111,473, am@ amalgame IMPRVEMENT IN `TRACE-CARRIERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making part of thesamc.

'To all whomit may concern Beit known that I, ROBERT PORTER, of Ottumwa,

' in the county of' Wapello and inthe State of Iowa,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trace-Carriers; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,

reference being had to theaccompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part -of this specification. p

The lature of my invention consists in thereon# struction and arrangementof a trace-carrier, as

will be hereinafter fully set forth. p

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which 'myinventiou appertains 'to make and use the same, I

will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure l is :t planNiew, and

Figure 2 is a side View of my trace-carrier. Y

A represents a ring of suitable dimensions, provided with four arms, B B, radiating from the center at' equal distances' apart, forming i'our segments, or :rather openings, in which the back-strap C, crupper D, and hip-straps E E'are secured.

From the center of the rng A, where the arms B Bjoin-togethr, rises a post, G, provided with a head,`H.-.

' The cock-eye, which is alwaysvput'on 1ong-tug harness, will be slipped over this post when the horse or horses are loose from the wagon.

The post G may be either stationaryor hinged, as,v

.as andfor-the purposes set forth.

In'-testimony that I claim the foregoing I havel hereunto set my hand this 1st day of April, 1870.

` ROBERT 'PORTER VVitne'sses v R. J. REEVES, J oHN B. Ennis. 

